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Zaytoven
American
Musician
Born:
Jan 12
,
1980
Beats
Future
Me
Music
People
You
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I use a lot of piano riffs in my production, and someone who I was working with said that I played so good that it sound like Beethoven.
Zaytoven
Good
Someone
Piano
Like
Said
Sound
Beethoven
Lot
Working
Production
Use
Who
Riffs
Played
The reason I still go play the organ at church every Sunday and dedicate my talents to God first is because I feel like that's the reason why I'm who I am today.
Zaytoven
Today
God
Church
Sunday
First
Organ
Every
Every Sunday
Feel
Like
Talents
Because
Am
Still
Go
Dedicate
Reason
Who
Why
Play
I listen to a lot of music... but there still hasn't been a project yet that touches me like 'Beast Mode' has.
Zaytoven
Music
Me
Beast
Project
Like
Still
Been
Lot
Mode
Listen
When I actually first moved to Atlanta, I was cutting hair. I was making beats and making music out in the Bay Area. But I came here to make - you know, I had to get my barber license, so I was cutting hair.
Zaytoven
Music
You
Hair
First
Out
Bay
Bay Area
License
Atlanta
Area
Had
Beats
Know
Make
Making
Came
Get
Moved
Barber
Cutting
Actually
Here
People looked at me - people still look at me - as 'this is Gucci Mane's producer.' But the music that me and Future put together was so different than what me and Gucci do, it just made people look at the music like, 'Hold on - Zaytoven is the real deal.'
Zaytoven
Music
Future
Me
Together
People
Made
Gucci
Put
Like
Look
Looked
Deal
Real
Still
Real Deal
Than
Just
Different
Hold
Producer
Just the instrumentation of the whole 'Beast Mode' made people open up and respect me in a whole other way. With Gucci, I don't use as many instruments. I don't play the piano as much because that's not really the style of music that me and Gucci have built.
Zaytoven
Music
Me
Respect
People
Made
Beast
Style
Other
Gucci
Way
Piano
Open
Instrumentation
Instruments
Because
Built
Up
Mode
Just
Much
Really
Use
Many
Whole
Play
I've been doing this since 'So Icy' back in 2005.
Zaytoven
Back
Since
Doing
Been
Icy
The music business, a lot of times, has a big finesse mentality to it.
Zaytoven
Music
Business
Big
Music Business
Finesse
Mentality
Lot
Times
When I was a youngster, I might have been about 17 or 18 when I first started making beats.
Zaytoven
First
About
Beats
Making
Been
Might
Youngster
Started
To me, my studio is my trap house. That's where I trap out of; that's where I hustle. That's where I make my money.
Zaytoven
Me
Money
Out
Hustle
Studio
House
Make
Where
Trap
When people wanna come buy beats or wanna record a song, I'm trappin'.
Zaytoven
Buy
People
Song
Record
Beats
Come
Wanna
Most artists value my opinion a lot, and I think that's due to 'Beast Mode.'
Zaytoven
Value
Beast
Think
Most
Opinion
Due
Lot
Mode
Artists
Anything that me and Gucci do is never thought out or planned real deeply. We always just go off of what we feeling. It's sporadic.
Zaytoven
Me
Thought
Feeling
Gucci
Out
Never
Always
Real
Go
Off
Just
Anything
Planned
Deeply
I started producing in California, and they called it mob music. When I moved to Atlanta, the sound was different. People in Atlanta didn't like to rap over West Coast beats. So I had to make adjustments to what was going on in the South.
Zaytoven
Music
People
Rap
Adjustment
Atlanta
Had
Beats
Over
Like
California
Make
Sound
West
West Coast
South
Mob
Going
Moved
Different
Producing
Different People
Coast
Started
I can show these folks I can do more than just the 'trap.' But what I realized is the trap is what they really recognize me for - that's what they want to hear.
Zaytoven
Me
Recognize
Folks
More
Hear
Than
Just
Want
Realized
Really
Show
Trap
When you take your music around to your people in the city or your label, and don't nobody like it, but you really like it, and you like, 'Dang, these folks don't hear what I hear.'
Zaytoven
Music
You
People
City
Folks
Take
Nobody
Like
Around
Hear
Label
Really
Your
For a producer, I've been behind the scenes my whole career.
Zaytoven
Scenes
Been
Behind
Producer
Whole
Career
What's so crazy is I always looked at Jay Z and guys on the caliber of Jay Z like they just the big dogs. I didn't think they listen to my music or even know who I am.
Zaytoven
Music
Crazy
Big
Think
Guys
Like
Know
Looked
Caliber
Always
Am
Dogs
Listen
Just
Jay
Jay-Z
Who
Even
'So Icy' is always going to be one of my favorites because this is a song that blew my mind. I was just making beats for the fun of it. I went to the club and heard the song being played, so I asked the DJ to stop playing the song, and the whole club started rapping word for word.
Zaytoven
Song
Word
Mind
Club
Favorites
Rapping
Beats
Blew
Because
Always
Making
Heard
Going
Just
Stop
Being
Icy
Asked
Fun
Whole
Played
Started
Playing
When I was in high school, the girls used to tell me I looked like Usher, so to be doing a song with Usher was mind-blowing.
Zaytoven
Me
Song
School
Girl
Mind-Blowing
Tell
High
High School
Like
Looked
Doing
Used
Usher
When Zaytoven and Future are working together, then Future's not working on no other tracks, and Zaytoven's not making no beats for nobody but Future.
Zaytoven
Future
Working Together
Together
Other
Beats
Nobody
Tracks
Making
Then
Working
When I think of trap, I think of something that is unrehearsed. It's something that's edgy, not too well put together.
Zaytoven
Together
Think
Too
Something
Put
Well
Edgy
Trap
If you listen to my early music, I didn't know how to mix. I barely knew how to record for real, and I didn't care.
Zaytoven
Music
You
Care
Record
Knew
Know
How
Real
Mix
Listen
Barely
Early
If I'm spending more than 15 minutes on a beat, I'm not feeling it.
Zaytoven
Feeling
Spending
Minutes
More
Beat
Than
When your dad is a preacher and your mom is a choir director and you're in church all the time, as a youngster, you've got to find something to do. That's where my musical background comes from.
Zaytoven
Time
Mom
You
Director
Church
Musical
Background
Find
Something
Got
Preacher
Where
Choir
Youngster
Your
Dad
When you work with Drake, you don't really work with Drake. You send him the song, he rap on it, then y'all done worked together. So it ain't like me and him sitting in the studio.
Zaytoven
Work
Me
You
Together
Song
Drake
Rap
He
Studio
Like
Him
Send
Sitting
Done
Then
Worked
Really
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